That would be the every-lying, unintrustworthy, MSM, too.
Posted on 01/26/2011 4:18:52 AM PST by Kaslin
War Of Words: Politicians of every stripe have long known that controlling the language of political conflict wins half the battle. The president cannot be allowed to misrepresent his record of fiscal irresponsibility.
Two years before writing "1984," George Orwell wrote an essay titled "Politics and the English Language." World War II had just ended and this British socialist with no utopian misconceptions about Josef Stalin's Soviet totalitarianism to the east believed that "the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end."
In "1984," the great warning novel of a dark future where the party has total authority over society, Orwell showed how a regime can control people through the perversion of words. Engraved on the wall of the mythical Oceania's "Ministry of Truth" are the slogans "War is Peace," "Freedom is Slavery" and "Ignorance is Strength."
A new slogan can now be added to that wall: "Spending is Investment."
Orwell pointed out that "political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
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That would be the every-lying, unintrustworthy, MSM, too.
In fairness, "progressives" have been using that euphemism for years. Clinton did it as well.
I didn’t watch last night, but it seems Obama failed again.
Lets face the facts. In 2012 a person can vote for more of the same misery and destruction OR they vote against it.
Seems the centist makeover is a total bust.
centist=centrist
The most evident idiocy were the people with the Ribbons. How completely lame can you get?
0+0=0
I think he is now sub-Zero.
All investment involves spending; that is a given. But to argue that any and all spending is therefore “investment” is patently untrue. These dissembling socialist demagogues are banking on the inability of the public to distinguish the difference.
I didn’t either. I watched Rush on the Golf channel, but changed the channel to FOX News during the commercials, making sure I had it on mute.
Fairness is truth
Progressive is progressive
Fairness is a losing proposition when playing in competition with the left.
Up is down. War is peace. Good is bad. Right is wrong. Welcome to nobama world (aka Bizarro world). nobama is such a putz. Super Putz.
This morning I was looking for all the accolades to the brilliance of Obama.
I think it must have been a confusion bomb. LOL
I can’t watch him. Watching him makes me cranky.
I can’t listen or watch him. My TV is to the right, a few feet away from me. So I have to my head or my chair if I want to watch something, otherwise I just listen.
That’s very good. Do you do these yourself?
Clinton used “investment” for spending proposals, too. He was very brazen.
“progressive” itself is Orwellian.
“Progressives” have been around since Wilson or before.
They were fascists then, and they are fascists now.
There is nothing “progressive” about promoting neo-feudalism.
Actually, welcome to “the world” and the language of the prince of this world - the father of lies.
It isn’t any wonder that those of this world would turn language and truth inside out and upside down.
We actually aren’t supposed to post Ramirez’ cartoons, as they are “excerpt only”.
It’s too bad - he’s probably my favorite editoonist today.
That last cartoon needs a hungry shark.
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